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«Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.»
Author: Barbara Johnson | About: Patience | Keywords: feel like, gear, geared, gearing, gears, idle, in gear, motor, motoring, motors, stripping
«Spiritual rest maketh no man idle, spiritual walking maketh no man weary»
Author: Nathaniel Hardy | Keywords: idle, weary
«Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle»
Author: Charles H. Spurgeon | About: Temptation | Keywords: attack, idle, industrious, temptations
«Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Reputation | Keywords: deserving, false, idle, imposition, impositions, merit, merited, oft
«Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.»
Author: Eric Hoffer (Writer) | Keywords: chronic, dissatisfaction, idle, manifests, originality, originate, originate in, The Chronic, tinker, tinkering, tinkers, wholly, with that
«Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Poet) | Keywords: break, changing, color, coloring, color in, idle, idled, idling, reverie, reveries, seashore, sit, sit in, watch, waves
«Poetry should only occupy the idle.»
Author: Lord Byron | About: Poetry | Keywords: idle, occupy
«Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi (Philosopher) | About: Prayer | Keywords: amusement, applied, idle, idling, instrument, old woman, potent, prayer, properly, understood
«That man is idle who can do something better»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Men | Keywords: idle, idled, idling
«There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: armed, by me, Cassius, honesty, idle, pass by, terror, the threat of, Threats
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